Expert CEO executive search firm

Neon River

Expert CEO executive search firm

Nothing has more impact on the future success of a company than finding and attracting the right CEO.

Culture and strategy flows from the top of a business and as the leader of the company, the CEO has a key role to play in shaping its direction and personality.

Neon River is an executive search firm with deep experience of managing CEO executive search projects.

We use our deep network of candidates in the technology and games sectors, and world-class market research capabilities to craft a headhunting process that identifies, converts and manages the highest quality CEO candidates.

We have deep experience of hiring CEOs for venture capital and private equity backed companies who need to find the right leaders to grow their business.

20+ years executive search experience
400+ successfully completed assignments

Our Process

A strong process makes a huge difference when managing a CEO executive search project.

Our team will meet with key stakeholders, including board members, investors and executives to get a deep understanding of your business, its key drivers and the skills and qualities we are looking for in the successful candidate.

Following the briefing, our team will thoroughly research the relevant industries across international markets to identify the strongest passive candidates.

Those passive candidates are then approached and given a strong verbal pitch and high quality job description that explains the company dynamics, market opportunity and role responsibilities.

Each candidate is interviewed in detail against the requirements and we also offer psychometric assessment capabilities should our clients wish to use them.

We share regular update reports and organize regular update calls with our clients to update them on our progress and roster of candidates.

We manage our roster of candidates through our clients interview process, and provide detailed advice to our clients on offer construction.

We also thoroughly reference our lead candidates to ensure they meet our criteria and have a track record of success.

Why Choose Neon River

At Neon River we believe that the essence of a strong CEO executive search process is hands-on, Partner-led project execution.

Through using our deep experience over 20 years of executive search we can build shortlists of the highest quality for our clients.

There’s no silver bullet for high quality executive search; rather several important details have to be executed well.

We view our role as to both understand our clients business and advise on best practice, sharing our experience from previous projects to avoid mistakes.

Through a combination of high quality market research, a strong network of candidates, deep sector and functional knowledge and a highly professional yet personal approach we believe that we offer executive search services of the highest quality.

Our founder Peter Franks has spent his whole career specializing in leading executive search assignments for technology and games companies around the world.